Immigration wonk. Proud @Macalester @ElliottSchoolGW @FulbrightPrgrm @uc3m alum, LA 🇸🇻 kid. Views are my own
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I just launched the Ministry of Mobility Design. The platform is a non-partisan policy lab for employment-based immigration system design that publishes white papers, research, and commentary to advance better legal migration frameworks
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“Wait and see” is right. Dems have admitted Biden’s immigration approach failed. But voters haven’t heard what comes next.
The 2028 primaries will force candidates to answer on a national stage—and reshape the party.
Our polling is the first step in helping Dems get it right.
A 2028 wrinkle is the number of voters who’ll be in wait and see” mode for Dems on this issue. This will require promoting ideas that secure public support, implementing them, and managing their outcomes. But it’ll also need an honest stroke of luck for this opening to appear
It's been a good year for las Selecciónes to get two stars. Let's keep it going next year in Brazil, @SEFutbolFem!
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Suddenly, a lot of senators who spent the past two years blocking even modest ICE reforms, approving tariffs, refusing to stop the war, and catering to every Trump whim are now hoping to tweet their way out of it six weeks before the election. Good luck with that.
When ICE operates in Kansas, it needs to coordinate with our local law enforcement. Our sheriffs and police know these communities better than anyone, and working together keeps officers and residents safe.
I’m closely following what’s happening in SW Kansas and have been in direct contact with Secretary Mullin and local law enforcement as ICE executes warrants in order to keep Kansans safe.
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So that's a no. The "most transparent administration in history" once again refuses to release data on immigration enforcement that was previously published on a regular basis until Trump took office.
BASH: Part of the issue is DHS isn't releasing numbers. Will you help to clear up what you're saying by releasing figures of your arrests?
MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Every time we try to give numbers out you guys want to go in there and pick it apart and make it political when you should be saying 'at least we're getting these criminals off our streets'
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España recibe más inmigrantes que Francia y Alemania juntas y se convierte en el gran motor de crecimiento demográfico de Europa dlvr.it/TVVfkt
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This is infuriating.
This admin has spent years arguing that exploiting foreign workers hurts American wages & working conditions.
Now it is making it harder for foreign workers to leave bad employers thus INCREASING exploitation.
A thread of the admin’s own words + sources:
A DHS proposal released Thursday would eliminate a 60-day grace period for H-1B workers after a job loss.
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No one should take this article seriously when it fails to examine how Schengen/freedom of movement/EU policy issues would make this idea radioactive on both sides of Atlantic, especially for a Canada that'll resist handing control of parts of its immigration system to the EU
Ever since Donald Trump’s combustive, combative second term began, a fringe idea has entered the mainstream: forget being the 51st U.S. state, what if Canada became the 28th member of the European Union? A poll conducted in March found that almost half of Canadians surveyed would support joining the E.U., with only 28 per cent against it. In Europe, various prominent officials are also keen. Read more about why even the notion of Canada joining the E.U. is significant: newyorker.com/news/global-no…
From the U.S. perspective, the experience of growing migration crises at the U.S.-Mexico border between 2014 and 2024 show they were intractable because they didn't approach them as natural disaster scenarios that required national/state and regional coordination to control them
Empiezo a pensar que Ceuta va a ser para Pedro Sánchez lo que el 1 de Octubre fue para Mariano Rajoy. Es decir, el error político que ni la propaganda puede tapar, y que acabará sentenciado su presidencia definitivamente. Por mucho que en el corto plazo pueda intentar contener la situación, los efectos políticos se van a percibir demoledores en el largo.
It's true three administrations' shifting asylum policies drove these crises, a reason Dems lost in 2024. But the failure to have FEMA-style processes to control what are effectively natural disasters made them intractable as they grew in scale and scope bipartisanpolicy.org/article…
My dad studied with Escalante in the 90s and heard a lot about this story over the years as they maintained a friendship. I had the honor of meeting him in the late 1990s and had a memorable exchange - or debate depending on who you ask - about politics in my family living room
We're now seeing parallels with the heights of the U.S. migrant crisis in 2023 where the absence of a protocol coordinating the response between central government, sub-regions, and localities to manage migration events and crisis generated local backlash ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/new…
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Un grupo de ceutíes quema parte de un campamento de inmigrantes. La policía intenta contener a los manifestantes elpais.com/espana/2026-08-27…
Always appreciate the shoutout from someone advancing the conversation forward like @akoustov. Hopefully my little account reaches the level of his output on Substack
It's great to see more folks in the immigration policy design space—not just ongoing politics—on stack. Everyone should follow @CramonMigration and his new Ministry of Mobility Design newsletter. Excited to see what he comes up with next!
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My launch piece gathers threads in my career, outlining why the current policy rethink needs to elevate this area and 15 questions for generating better designs for overhauling these systems. If you like what you see, subscribe and reach out if you want to publish your own piece
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I often see variations of this chart by @Noahpinion showing how much Canada has lagged the U.S., but isn't my chart here the relevant one - EVERYONE has lagged the U.S.? Instead of asking why Canada lagged, we should ask why does the U.S. lead.
A key lesson from comparative analysis of immigration policy is remembering all countries will prolong immigration crises if they coordinate at the national, regional, and local level, a problem that's turned the Ceuta crisis into a challenge for this memo elpais.com/espana/2026-08-27…
Last week, thousands of migrants surged across the border from Morocco to Spain in a day, and within 48 hours, the situation was under control.
In @FrankSharry's latest piece, he shares what we can take away from Spain's (and similar countries') immigration strategies: thirdway.org/memo/order-is-t…
